Plus, I was set back from the water’s edge, which is always important when your bait is only a few feet from the bank.
It’s not the sort of angling that you can do with a fishing partner sitting next to you, but as I always fish solo anyway, that’s not an issue.
I had a number of perch that every time I threw a few maggots in, swam around them, but apart from an occasional one taken most of them just fell to the bottom.
When that happens, you know it’s going to be tough and that was the case.